Article ID: | iaor19921719 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 59 |
End Page Number: | 67 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1992 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Kiaer Lynn, Yellen Jay |
Keywords: | heuristics, education, timetabling |
A weighted graph is used to model the problem of scheduling university courses minimizing conflict. A variety of vertex section criteria are introduced, and are used in a heuristic algorithm for finding approximate solutions in the form of least-cost